HILLELSON,
Jeffrey Paul, a Representative from Missouri; born in Springfield, Clark
County, Ohio, March 9, 1919; attended the public schools; graduated from
the University of Missouri, Kansas City, 1947; United States Army, 1942-1946,
retaining his commission in the Reserve; business owner, 1947-1952; chair,
Republican City Central Committee of Independence, Missouri, 1949; elected
as a Republican to the Eighty-third Congress (January 3, 1953-January 3,
1955); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-fourth Congress
in 1954; executive assistant to the Postmaster General, Washington, D.C.,
from January 3, 1955, until his resignation September 22, 1955; unsuccessful
candidate for election in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress; delegate to
Republican State conventions, 1948, 1952, and 1956; delegate to the Republican
National Convention, 1956; appointed acting postmaster of Kansas City,
Mo., 1957-1961; elected member of Kansas City, Mo., city council from April
1963 until June 1969; regional administrator, General Services Administration,
1969-1974; served on the Johnson County, Kansas, commission, 1981-1982;
died on May 28, 2003, in Shawnee Mission, Kans.; internment in Arlington
National Cemetery.
HILLELSON, JEFFREY PAUL MAJ US ARMY DATE OF BIRTH: 03/09/1919 DATE OF DEATH: 05/28/2003 BURIED AT: SECTION 3-FF ROW 27
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Posted: 6 August 2006